Third time lucky
THE South Coast Sharks will be hoping it is a case of third time lucky when the Queensland Super League begins at the State Hockey Centre in Brisbane today.
The Sharks’ women, who will be led by Hockeyroo Rosie Malone, have finished runner up at the past two tournaments, which bring together six regional teams for a threeday round robin competition.
The South Coast teams unite Gold Coast and Tweed talent, with the Sharks’ men’s team featuring a host of Labrador Brisbane Hockey League stars including Blake WotherFresh
spoon and Brent Livermore.
They will play Central and Brisbane today, Wide Bay and Northern Storm tomorrow, and South West on Monday.
Meanwhile, Mermaid Waters
teen Morgan Mathison has taken a major stride towards October’s Youth Olympic Games after helping Australia dominate their qualifying tournament in PNG.
off playing for the QAS against India and Scotland in the lead-up to the Commonwealth Games, the 17-year-old midfielder steered the Australians to a 29-0 annihilation of Vanuatu in the final in Port Moresby earlier this week.
The five-day tournament also had teams from PNG, Fiji, Solomon Islands and Tonga, with the Aussies now through to the Youth Olympics in Argentina from October 6-22.
Gold Coaster Brooke Anderson and the Aussie Country women’s team also completed an undefeated tour of Asia.